This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hgDBAIB/1605.4.1 Message Board Post: Hello, Here is a family tale of the spellings and my gr. gr'father Dr. John F. Rodgers that I have heard through the family grape-vine: My great grandfather, Dr. John Fleming Rodgers of Ky., had some brothers who, disgraced and angry because Dr. Rodgers rode with the Union (they all rode with the Confederacy), dropped the "d" from their names and from then on spelled it "Rogers" instead of Rodgers". Just a unsubstantiated tale but interesting none the less. I do wish I could find out who Dr. Rodgers' parents or line were. His obit says he was born in Bourbon Co., Ky but I have also heard that on his marriage certificate to his first wife, who I think was Margeret E. Pattie, it said he was born in Franklin Co.. I know he lived there at one time. His obit says he lived the last 28 yrs of his life in Clifton, Woodford Co., Ky., dying there in 1902 and is buried in Versailles, Ky. (he was born around 1827). His 2nd wife, my great grandmother, was Sarah Isabel Williams, known as "Belle". They had three kids, Lea, Emma, and Lester, my grandfather. Dr. Rodgers went to Med School at Eclectic Medical Institute or college in Cincinattie, Oh., and he served with the 11th Ky U.S. Cav during the War for Southern Independence as an Asst-Surgeon. His son, my grandfather, Lester Samuel Rodgers, used to write to some cousins in Midway, Woodford Co., Ky.. Lester wound up in Alabama where he met my grandmother and settled down. Any help or info would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, David Middleton Edelen II Millbrook, Al. k98@bellsouth.net